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"I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect."

Jane Goodall on Respect

More quotes about Respect

  • "An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."

    Martin Luther King, Jr. on Respect

  • "Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."

    Albert Einstein on Respect

  • "Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

    Albert Einstein on Respect

  • "Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."

    Malcolm X on Respect

  • "If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."

    Abraham Lincoln on Respect

More quotes by Jane Goodall

  • "Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around."

  • "Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right."

  • "I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them."

  • "When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth."

  • "My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl."

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